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Episode 37: Tasteful Gladiators · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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All right, you are in the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholme and dear friend comedian actor Raj Sharma. Hello morning, gentlemen,
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Good morning or afternoon, depending on what time you hit play on this episode.
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So, speaking of episodes, we are still somewhat fresh off the heels
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of our of our road show at Daddy Rabbits, bub and Louisville, which
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I think it's safe to say we all had a pretty good time and it
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was a great turnout. The place was once again packed, so yeah for
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us, Yeah, yeah. Or as as Tray said to me later on
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that evening or the next morning, he's like, you know what, Dan,
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it really amazes me that people drive so far just to watch us talk.
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It does. Yeah, that is true. I know, yeah,
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right, you have to be a little more used to it. It's what
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you do for a living, people, you know. Yeah. I had
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a couple the last I was at the Addison and Problem that drove from which
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Tough Falls um and then went straight back after the show, and I was
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like that, Okay, that's pretty cool, but yeah it was. That
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was really it was. It was nice to see I haven't done one of
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the road shows. I'm not done the thing. It was the second one,
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right, yeah. Yeah, it's not like we've done a ton without
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you, it's two. No, But it was really it was really cool
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to see like just how much everyone enjoys the show and are willing to come
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out because it's five o'clock because it was the star time, I think,
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yeah, right, it was five o'clock, and so it was packed.
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At four thirty. I think you were then at the ease and you're a
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little nervous because for thirty and there was a there was a handful of people.
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By five, I think the place was full. Yeah, and you
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at one point lean over and were like, you know, there's still more
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people coming, and I'm like, I don't know where they're going to go.
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I don't know where they're gonna sit. Well, I know some of
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them ended up sitting in the back basically in the bathroom. Yeah, and
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in the hallway that led to the bathrooms, and right before the hallway,
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people were crammed around the two the two pool tables. Yeah. So it
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was it was a great turnout. So everyone that came, thank you very
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much. We appreciate and it was great seeing everybody. The dangerous thing though
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about doing a live event isn't so much about putting are putting our imposter syndromes
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on full display as far as wondering, oh my god, as anyone going
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to come to see us, I don't know, please please don't, please,
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don't let us embarrass ourselves in front of this new establishment. So at
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least that that part, yeah, was fine. But the other dangerous part
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is when people come, they have a tendency to bring stuff which can be
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great. Like Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing raje I showed you. She brought me
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this Band of Brothers. Yeah, yeah, that was really cool. So
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she had found this book. The book is a Band of Brothers that it
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was used for the Band of Brothers mini series back in like two thousand and
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two thousand and one at Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced, and it's one of
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my favorite shows of all time. And I've read the book as well.
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Well. She found this book and it had and she had gone to this
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event. I can't remember exactly all the details because you know, I've brain
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fall, but she basically met almost the entire cast and they autographed the book
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and then the actors put the real life soldier that they portrayed in the show,
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so they so you would know who they were and everything, because you
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know, it's autographs or scribbles and you can't read a half of them anyway.
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So anyway, that was a great thing. She brought that and gave
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that to me because she knew she knew that I was a huge fan of
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the series, and so that was cool. Robert Powell, our dear friend
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Robert Powell, who's been a long time listener of the show, did me
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a solid. He told me months ago when Bluebell released the Doctor Pepper float
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ice cream flavor. He's like, are you gonna be able to get some?
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And I was like, man, I don't know if there's gonna be
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any left by the time I get into town. And he's like, I
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got you, and he did. He brought a cooler with four four pints
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of the Doctor Pepper ice cream that are now sitting in the freezer of my
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Airbnb. That's great. I didn't know that that was a flavor, but
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that sounds cool. Actually missed that. Uh, I'm not a bit I
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mean Doctor Pepper. If it was, I don't, I don't, I
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don't seek I don't seek out the dock. Well, I know it was
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for about two or three days. You were hard pressed again on any social
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media and not see something about the you know, water Burger doctor Pepper float.
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They do a doctor Pepper milkshake. That's what it is, Okay,
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but uh and here's what's interesting, And it's kind of blasphemy to say,
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but if you take the doctor Pepper float ice cream and then put some coke
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at it, it's actually really tasty. How dare you, sir? How
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dare you say something so clearly untextan that man did not go to four years
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of medical school, unless, of course less of course, by coke,
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you mean doctor pepper, because that is something Texan is. We refer to
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every soda as coke. Yeah, and I think the Addison improv actually has
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it on the gun they have like if you order a doctor Pepper, you
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will get doctor Pepper. That's that's the like I hadn't had. I don't
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think I had a full what they say, like a full fat or a
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full normal doctor Pepper because my whole family was diabetics, so like like eighty
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nine, everything in my house switched to diet everything, and I remember the
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manager, Jay was like, I'm gonna get a doctor Pepper and I was
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like, oh, well, what do you have again, going back to
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everything as a coker or whatever, and he's like, no, we actually
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have doctor Pepper, and I forgot how good it just stood on its own.
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I was like, all right, and I don't really seek it out,
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but it's a it's a pretty so it's a pretty solid drink. Twenty
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three ingredients or whatever it is. Is it still right? Usually they're on
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the on the on the can or the bottle, and still to this day,
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no one knows what most of them are. Yeah, it's like KFC.
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Actually, I think the KFC recipe got leaked years ago. You can
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find that online somewhere. Oh I need to do that. Um. But
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yeah, I I I'm I was a Pepsi generation kid, So like Michael
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Jackson got me drinking pepsi. Oh, I'm a I'm a pepsi guy.
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You're you're part of the one generation. Yeah, that m'd have been a
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mesquite thing, because otherwise there's you're and I are the same age Roger,
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there was no pepsi generation. I was. I was a part of it.
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I mean except except if you were in that small window and here that
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this will really date me where when Coke introduced new coke, then there was
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you know, there's a small sliver of people that went to pepsi because yeah,
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yeah, I remember, and I didn't drink enough regular cooked and like
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I think I had a new coke once. Maybe I don't know, I
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just remember, like I remember all the debaccles. I remember the new coke
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and then crystal Pepsi was my favorite failure. See, to me, that's
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the sweet spot is we're all old enough slash young enough to remember both yecause
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I remember I still remember how whatever whatever year it was, but I still
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remember being in the grocery store. I think it was I think this was
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so far back that it wasn't Albertson's and it wasn't jewel Osco. It was
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all the way back to the store. It was Scaggs Alphabeta. Yeah,
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and I remember going into Stags. I remember going into Skags and seeing new
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coke, and even as even as a child, I remember thinking, why
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are they messing with something that's already perfect? Well, why do you need
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new coke? And then extending that sweet spot out into the early nineties when
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Crystal Pepsi was a thing and everyone knew. Everyone knew before it came out
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it was gonna flop, even though they had the really cool uh super Bowl
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commercial with Van Halen singing the song and everything. And I'll admit I went
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to the store. I got the Crystal pepsi. I think I ended up
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having like two two leader bottles. And then I was like, yeah,
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this is this kind of gross. I gave it a fair shot, man,
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I go. I went in two two Leaders, and I was like,
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I can still actually taste this seriously after taste twenty years thirty years later,
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I do you you were a better man than me. I got the
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one and I begged and I was like, I you know, Michael Jackson
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got me on pepsi because he was in and he was the Jackson five in
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the commercial. I'm like, oh my god, this is gonna be great.
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And I'm like, I'm on board with whatever they bring out. I'm
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on board. And I got the I asked my mom, I'm like please,
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it's like where all that bet X. I'm like, but please?
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And uh. I got the two Leader and I was like, wow,
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that this is diabetes. Like this is like, this is how you get
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it as when I drinking. But but then I went to college and I
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remember I was like, oh, so the guy from Crystal PEPSI recovered his
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money with ziema. Same guy. No, I'm just assuming there was just
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so much of that leftover. They're like, hey, how about we just
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put alcohol in it, Like, let's see what we can that does actually
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the flavor if I mean, it's been a while since I've had either one,
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but from my memory banks the flavor profile seemed very similar. Yeah,
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there was a place in off Sunset called Laser Cat and it was an eighties
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themed bar. Oh my god. And they did the zema and they gave
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you a like a when you ordered your zeema, they gave you a little
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cup of jolly ranchers. I don't know if you guys, Yeah, oh
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yeah, and you had your different flavors so you could put your jolly rancher
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in. So basically it was the homemade homemade white cloth. Yes, you
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know, that's probably what it was. That whoever it was that came up
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with the whole white cloth thing that started this whole seltzer you know, uh
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thing now, probably was exactly inspired by the zeeman, the jolly ranchers and
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said, oh, I'll just make this a totally new drink and call it
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a new name. And next thing you know, everyone's got a freaking seltzer.
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Yeah. I just, uh, the white cloth thing took off like
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I didn't. I didn't think it would. And I don't know if it
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was just like soccer models. I gave them a reason, like it's like,
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hey, I'm not an alcoholic, I drink a seltzer. I'm like,
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okay, when you're nineteen mango white claws in and topless, yes,
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tell me more about how about how you're just a casual drinker your kids soccer
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game? If you if if you're nineteen white claws in in your mom and
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your mom tumbler, and you are running up and down the sideline of your
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six year old soccer game, ripping your shirt off Brandy chat Stain style but
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not having the sports brought underneath and whipping it around your head like you're at
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the rodeo going woo hoo Timmy. Especially when there's no Timmy on the team,
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you might have a problem. Yeah, it's the the white clat And
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then uh, I saw this at my my nephew's soccer game. They this
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is sneaky and it's fun, kind of sneaky, but they have the wine
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in the juice box. Oh right, have you seen this? It looks
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like a so it looks like the moms are on the side drinking juice like
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the little box. Yeah, it's like the little um whatever it was,
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the little apple juice box. It used to get in school or whatever.
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But it's like a full glass of wine. And so they have this like
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kind of like this mom nod that they're like, hey, it's in that
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cool over there, and they all go over and I'm like, wow,
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you guys are you guys are drinking in a child's sporting event. Like I
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think as a society, this is why I don't have kids, Because I
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don't. I don't have to come to that low point like where I'm like,
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how can I make this six year old? How can I make this
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occer to be more interesting? I get loaded, to be fair. When
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you're watching a bunch of five and six and seven year olds play soccer,
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they all look drunk. Yeah, I mean the three of us have spent
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enough time in and around bars to realize, Yeah, seeing a bunch of
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five and six and seven year olds chasing one ball around a field all huddled
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together is very similar to a bunch of drunks at water Burger at two am.
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Yes, just flocking, flocking to it. But I'll tell you what
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completely changed the trajectory as far as the soccer, you know, motherhood,
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you know phenomenon and drinking at the kids sporting event was the Steel Cup because
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once the Steel Cup came out, they could hide whatever their adult beverage was
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at eight am. Yeah. Yeah. Well. Also, the other thing
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that really that sparked that I think is was COVID because at a certain point
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after homeschooling their kids, a bunch of mothers were like, yeah, they
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used to try to hide it from each other. No, I don't really
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drink that much. Then I think it all their crap got laid out and
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they're like, yeah, you know, I'm cracking one at ten thirty in
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the morning when I'm trying to teach timmy algebra, and or they decided,
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you know what, because they had to, you know, have the kids
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at home, but then they also had to jump on zoom for work purposes,
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so they needed to hide the booze in the water tank, so they
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would be on like, you know, meeting at work and everyone's drinking out
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of these metal cups and everyone knows it's booze, but no one says it.
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I think I think we just stumbled onto and I don't know. We
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might have to edit this out just so we don't let the idea leak because
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it's brilliant. But if you did the seltzer in the Sparklets container with the
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like, if you did like if you had a whole like you mean,
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like the five gallon just yes, like the actual water cooler. Yes,
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Okay, now guys, okay, I've come up with some hair brained business
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ideas before, but follow me on this one. Okay, okay, this
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would sell right like the Sparklets guy, but it's like it's our version white
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Claw or whatever, like you can and it doesn't have to be I mean,
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come on, it doesn't have to be a five gallon. You can
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do like a three gallon or maybe a one like tabletop and it's like the
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places like the bars and stuff that do the Tower of Beer or whatever.
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But this is for your home and or soccer practice. I don't know how
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there's there's some marketing stuff and some logistics that have to be worked out.
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But I could see that, like the Sparklets guy just coming up and just
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knock them down like a manko selser in front of your door. But but
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you're saying it has to be hidden, so it's actually in a Sparklets jug
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right, as opposed to the jug having like the white claw label on it.
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Right, It just like Sparklets is misspelled so that we don't get sued
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We're seeing a lot of move up buyers and a lot of people right sizing
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They want to move to Azel. They want to get out of the traffic.
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was the show that you were saying that that Trey and I need to watch
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on Netflix? Because I know Netflix has has sort of gone gone heavy on
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the documentaries lately, and so now they've got all these new ones. Yeah,
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it's pretty I mean, it's a pretty pretty brilliant business model that Netflix
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has done is like, hey, how can I keep you watching for five
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episodes or six episodes? Let's just do docu series. I saw the American
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Gladiator one like that is that is you that's a must watch, like you
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have if you remember, like I'm forty eight about to be forty eight,
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So if you remember that show when you were coming up, Absolutely I loved
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that show. And I don't even remember if I don't know if it was
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a North Texas thing, but it always came on like late at night.
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I don't really remember if it came on during the day anywhere. It was
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always on like eleven o'clock or something. It was. It was a reason
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for me to stay up late and just watch you know, Hawk and and
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and and Tase, your you know, Turbo whatever, just running around chasing
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uh, chasing scrawny people with tennis balls. Yes see now now I know,
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uh because I watched the documentary. I know which season you you when
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you said Hawk and all that like that, those were those were after season
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one? Season one was your Nitro, your Blaze, your Malibu Alibu.
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Yeah, now I remember Nitro. I remember Nitro, Yeah, he have
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to he Uh, he's the most successful of the I'm sorry, I just
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had to laugh when I said that, What's what's that hierarchy of success look
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like as far as the post American Gladiators because I mean, he didn't do
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porn so so, so he's the tasteful Gladiator. Also, if we ever
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start a band, we're gonna be called Tasteful Gladiator. I don't know what
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we'll sing, but that's an awesome band name. Oh it's gonna be all
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bad. It's tasteful Gladiators. Uh. Yeah, he's Nitro. And the
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Malibu was my It was hilarious because they just because because of how he looked,
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they just made him that. He's like, I have never been on
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a surfboard ever. He's like, I'm not that guy. Well he's like
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he's like apparently like very well read like he's but he's like, yeah,
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man, you know, I'm just me in a babe and some bruise,
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Like he's not that guy. But then like when the camera turns off,
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it's he immediately puts on the smoking jacket, grabs a huge novel, sits
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in front of the fire with a pipe. Yeah. They he's got a
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very famous clip and you can look it up and just type in Malibu,
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uh raise. I think if you in YouTube will pop it up. And
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so I was like, so Malib, like would you do this way?
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He's like, you know, it's just me and some babes and some raised
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and he was like, that's not me at all. Like he's like,
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I'm not that guy. I've never stepped on a surfboard ever, but he
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looks like he would be that guy. Um, and then Nitro has a
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very cool story. Uh, they kept bringing him back. So they kind
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of did this the friends thing. The first season. It was like Blaze
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and Nitro and Malibu and um. They had one guy who is I think
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was in everyone. He even says it. He's like, I wasn't every
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season and no one remembers me. He was. I think it was like
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Tower. I think was his name. Really yeah, I think I think
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that was his name. But he's like a really really tall but really big
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guy. And he's like I wasn't. Like and they show like all the
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seasons, like the posters, he's in all of them. It's just you
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never really and this didn't stick. He just looked like a big dude,
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Like okay, so that's a big guy all and muscular. Everybody else had
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like the mane of hair or just like was just jacked on roids or whatever
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it was. He was like, yeah, work up, I'm big.
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It was just kind of in the corner or whatever. But like they but
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they did the Friends thing where like the season one, like they were they
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were kind of promised. It's what Hollywood does. They were kind of promised
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all of like, hey, just joined this season. You know, if
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it gets picked up, we'll get all this money. And then there's endorsement
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deals. And I think season two they were doing and Trey apparently remembers this
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like a stadium tour, like an arena tour. They were a band really,
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so they were going like city to city. Well you're you're saying like
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like it was a concert, but it was more like like WWF at the
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time, going from city to city or you know, ice capades. No,
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it was all the I would pay solid money to see American Gladiators on
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ice. They had the same setup if like today the only think kind of
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the same is the American Ninja Warrior. But they took the Gladiators show on
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the road and like they sold out. I mean, this is how long
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ago it was. It was a reunion arena. Oh but that's so that's
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so interesting that you say that trade because they said I think at the end,
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like when they're putting the button on the documentary, they're like, if
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it wasn't for this show, American Ninja Warrior wouldn't exist. And when they
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said it, like I don't really want I think I've seen maybe a couple
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of episodes of American Ninja Warrior. I'm not a big I don't. I
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don't. Okay, you're not a big fan of watching people really strong workout.
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But after the first season, I was like, okay, so you
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can you can climb obstacle courses, Okay, don't there's no real life practice
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like the American Gladiator things was hilarious because they were if you watch the documentary,
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they're just trying to come up with games. As every they kept getting
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picked up and like what else can we do, like put I don't know,
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hit him with tennis balls. Let's see what we can do like they
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were that's that's basically like when you watch the show, that's how they were
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coming up with game ideas like okay, so what can we do to concuss
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people? Well, I mean if if like yeah, I mean shows like
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American Ninja Warrior Wipe Out. You know, those shows definitely are offshoots.
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They come from that American gladiator tree, sort of like they talk about NFL
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coaching trees. It's like, okay, you know Bill Belichick is from the
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Bill Parcels coaching tree and stuff. It's the same thing with these you know,
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outlandish shows all the way up to and including whatever. The I think
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it's just a put put show that comes on in the summer. I mean
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that technically is that's that's that's inspired by American gladiators. Yeah, and so
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so basically the arena thing that they tray. Did you go to them?
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No? I did. I didn't go to it. What are their their
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people? The guy was my orthopede surgeon. Uh. He was very he
26:03
was well known and so stuff like that. People would go see him.
26:06
And it just happened the day I was there, they had one of the
26:08
people in the next room and I heard my doctor and this is really before
26:12
hippo because he also just said the guy was just dumb as a box of
26:17
rocks. But doctor was trying to explain to him that steroids impede the body
26:22
from healing. He said, your shoulder is never going to heal as long
26:26
as you keep doing steroids. And he said. The guy just could not
26:29
understand it, just yeah, yeah, and so they were talking about this.
26:37
So yeah, so it's this arena tour that they went on and it
26:41
was sold out like every like globally, going to Japan, going to like
26:45
Australia and everywhere sold out, and so it's basically like it is kind of
26:51
capitish, if we can make that word stick. It's very where they were
26:56
like and now introducing it was like the lineup would come out and they would
27:00
just like give a quick little intro and like dip out, and then the
27:02
next guy would come and then audience members like you could sign up to be
27:07
in the events, and they were talking about when they would go backstage.
27:11
Yeah, Pete from Saskatchewan, come on down. Yeah. It's it is
27:18
like the prices, right, but like eighty mile an hour tennis ball at
27:21
head yeah, or you're gonna you're just gonna get pulverized by by nitro.
27:26
Yeah, And I didn't and they show a couple of those clips where they
27:30
go, you know, we've sustained real injuries because they were literally coming up
27:33
with the games as as each season progressed. So I had number those.
27:37
Yeah, they had that one where like they basically stood on a tower and
27:41
then another person I think just hurled their body at him trying to knock them
27:45
off. Oh yeah, it was like a twenty foot drop or something.
27:48
I mean it was God. What was that the gauntlet? Well, I
27:52
thought the gauntlet was the end. Maybe, I know there was the jousting
27:57
that was one. So the joust was one of my favorites because it's similar
28:00
to I don't know, similar to nothing really, but the crowd would get
28:04
into it based on what event was coming up next. And of course the
28:10
crowds we all and the people watching, we had our favorites and some they
28:12
were like right, okay, fine, whatever, but the joust was everyone
28:15
was ever practically everybody's favorite because it was just taking two big sticks and smacking
28:21
the crap out of each other. Yeah, and then like the human wrecking
28:23
ball thing is what I could happen? Yeah, I think that was what
28:26
they call it. Wrecking baller. Oh maybe I don't know. That's the
28:27
only thing I could have quit it to. But they're like, I don't
28:30
know. It sparked that memory in my head where they would have cut away
28:33
to the gladiator like hey, you feel It was like, you know,
28:34
I'm doing okay and they're like bleeding there through. I can taste sound.
28:45
I mean, now that we're talking about it, then you know you really
28:49
think about all the things that American Gladiators inspired. It had to also have
28:55
been the inspiration for a squid Game, Yes, some of those things.
29:00
I was watching this, you know, the Squid Game show. It's like,
29:03
well, this looks like just stuff that they did on American Gladiators.
29:06
But you know, real do you remember, like you they would cut away,
29:10
They're like, hey, Nitrios, so how was that last one?
29:11
Like his eyes dangling out? Like well, I think I think whould cut
29:15
to commercial. But they had like paramedics on the side. And so when
29:18
they by season two, had had done all of this, all these tourings,
29:22
and they were talking about the trailers, talking about the steroids. They
29:26
were talking about the cleaning cruise that would come into the arenas, like their
29:29
dressing rooms and like just needles everywhere like they weren't. They weren't very shy
29:34
about where they did there. I don't know how steroids work. I thought
29:38
it was like, oh, let me do this in the bathroom of my
29:41
house and then go to the gin. I don't know, there's a kid
29:45
like how much time it needs to settle in before you work. I don't
29:48
know how it works. I just imagine like it's the Incredible Hulk, Like
29:52
you shoot it and then like your eyes turned green and now you're a giant.
29:56
Like that's all I can think of. It's not exactly like that,
30:00
But from what Trey was saying about steroids, that's the reason why I never
30:03
went anywhere near steroids. Well, I mean, I mean it was near
30:06
me plenty. You know, being in a gym or playing sports in high
30:08
school, you knew it was there. Like guys in the locker room were
30:11
not very shy about it. They'd be like, Oh, yeah, this
30:14
is what I take, this is how much I take, this is when
30:15
I do it, this is when I do that, blah blah blah.
30:18
We had we had guys in high school that it was hilarious to me because
30:22
just watching UH coaches that that knew what was going on? But we're trying
30:26
to find a spin. Do you see what this workout program does for you?
30:30
And I'm like, I'm I'm doing the same program. By the way,
30:33
and my buddy over here, uh he grew a hat size. I'm
30:37
just saying, his head got thicker. I'm just saying, I don't think
30:44
it has anything to do with two days. Yeah, I don't. I
30:47
don't think it's your I don't think it's your genius lifting program they're coaching.
30:49
Yeah, but then, uh, I am so all those campaigns back in
30:55
the day like that. Just say no, all that stuff worked on me.
31:00
And I heard steroids like it gives you, like it can stop your
31:03
heart in bad act like acne, like the small things and like snop your
31:07
heart and then can cause cancer. And I'm like, am I don't need
31:08
to be big and I'm Indian. What am I gonna do? The most
31:14
jack doctor you've ever seen? Like just a just a swoll it? Have
31:19
you turned it on and turned it off and then back on again? No,
31:22
Actually that might have been you might have ignored your your chance at the
31:26
big break in Hollywood rags because I had you done that, you would have
31:29
been the star of Swollen m D. We're writing that. I'm happy to
31:41
help. I'm happy to let let's let's let's collaborate on Swollen d Fresh.
31:45
I just want to see your business card that says consultant Swoll m D.
31:51
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, executive producer.
31:56
I'm if I'm gonna, If I'm gonna have my fingers in something that
31:59
stupid, I gotta be near the top of it. You don't want to
32:02
be the grip. Well, now I do. What are you working on
32:15
these days? You know they just picked up season two of Swollen Deep.
32:20
You'll never hear that in Hollywood, or maybe you say they do not.
32:24
Do not underestimate Hollywood. You've been in Hollywood enough to know things. The
32:29
only thing stupider than this show is just probably Hollywood or swollen We have to
32:37
make this show now, let me come on. They already have to addicted
32:42
doctors. It's like Grayson out of me. But instead of screwing their juicing,
32:52
the entire than just takes place in a gym full of doctor. Nobody
32:55
gets hurt. They don't. They don't do surgery. It's all about the
33:00
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33:08
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at Brooks Plumbing. All right, Roger, I think I found the clip
38:22
you were talking about with uh with Malibu from American Gladiators. Oh yeah,
38:29
just watching this clip just brings back so many fond, just brutal memories as
38:36
a child watching this show. I think, I think if this is the
38:39
right one. There was that human wrecking ball thing. I think he gets
38:44
like I don't think he gets pummeled, but I think he cuts his eye
38:50
or like he gets a gash to his head or something like that. Okay,
38:52
or he was like really badly injured. And this was there, like,
38:55
Hey, let's check in on ou Malibu is doing. That's exactly what
38:59
the the beginning stages of CTE. Let's check Yeah, this is from Universal
39:06
Studios Hollywood, Malibu on American Gladiators. Welcome back to Universal Studios Hollywood and
39:13
the American Gladiators. Now, last time we saw our gladiator Malibu, he
39:17
was flying through the air from a tremendous kick delivered by Brian Hudson, and
39:23
the last time he landed, we weren't sure where he wound up. Hey,
39:29
Malibu, after you got drilled by that human cannonball, I thought,
39:31
Hey, there is no way this guy is going to live to play another
39:35
day. You're alive, You're well, what happened? Did you go to
39:37
the hospital, did you get X rays? Well, dude, it's like
39:40
this. I saw this guy coming and I took the most excellent hit of
39:45
my life. Next thing, I knew. I was on the beach,
39:51
taking in some cosmic rays, getting healed by mother Nature, taking a little
39:55
BRUISKI, holding on a beautiful babe, and I'm fine today. So no
40:00
hospital, no doctors, just mother nature. Huh oh, I'm a child
40:04
of Mother Nature. Set Malibu. You are truly amazing. He took a
40:07
licking and he is still ticking? Is he me? Sweet? He doesn't
40:15
know what to say. He's like, I gotta play this character and he's
40:21
not this dude, but he's like literally still concussed. I believe when they're
40:25
uh yeah, he took If you watch the CLIs he takes guy. I
40:29
think the guy kicks him in the head. Uh yeah. And then they
40:32
did this and I forgot to mention this, but it was like, um,
40:37
I don't know which city, maybe Florida, maybe Branson, I'm not
40:40
sure, but they did the last kind of thing that they did to hold
40:45
onto the popularity was they did, uh, Okay, you've been in medieval
40:51
times. I've not, but I have not, but I know I know
40:54
pretty much all about it. Okay, so you go in, you eat,
40:58
and you watch the the people. That's what they did. And I
41:01
think it was Florida or Branson. But they had the American Gladiator Dinner Theater.
41:07
What Yeah, the American Gladiator Dinner Theater. Yes, Oh Jesus,
41:13
you have to watch it. I'm telling you, this is the greatest documentary.
41:15
But at the end they're like they had a dinner theater and uh,
41:20
like, oh, it's just the saddest because at the end of like the
41:22
clip of guys like, don't forget to check out the gladiator buffet, Like
41:28
what is it? Is it all just steroids windstraw? But it's like that
41:37
was the name of the buffet in the hotel, and they the gladiators had
41:42
to like you can meet them because that's where they had to eat. Is
41:45
it just like a Is it just like a like a testosterone fountain? There's
41:52
dessert? Yeah, that's ah, I'll never be able I'll never or see
42:00
it the chocolate fountain ever again and think the same thing. But no,
42:04
well that's because because now you have the gladiator corraled in your mind. Yeah,
42:10
they did the that was the last thing and they said that you know,
42:15
it was packed audiences. I guess I don't know what the overhead was,
42:19
but the gladiators showed up one day perform with the dinner theater and the
42:23
chains on the doors, and that's where I'm like, I think we're out
42:27
of work. That's probably a pretty good indicator that the ride is over.
42:32
Yeah, but how many seasons? If you had to guess how many seasons
42:36
do you think it was on the air, I would go four? Okay,
42:40
try uh, I have five, five or six? I guess I
42:45
think it was a closer than nine. I don't remember that, I think
42:51
so if I remember, because it was the first and second season, then
42:53
they had the whole uh world. They did like the like Friends before Friends
42:58
are like, we are the so the all the gladiators like, we're going
43:01
to ask for more money, and then they basically looked at him and went,
43:04
cool, we'll go to a gym and find a replacement. Yeah,
43:08
it's not like this is, you know, next level you know acting here.
43:13
All they needed was just some some people that are just really muscle e
43:16
and to run in and runningto walls and people and things. If you looked
43:21
at the cast of Friends when they did that whole thing, I think it
43:22
was after season two as well, when they're like we're gonna we're the show
43:28
there's nobody replacing any of those people. Right. Maybe at the time there
43:31
wasn't. We wouldn't have noticed as but that was the show. The American
43:36
Gladiators. Like you were like, hey man, I remember would you say?
43:38
You're like I remember Hawk? And I was like, in my head
43:42
of one season four, well that and not only that, but you know,
43:46
the names were pretty straightforward. So if the if they had to do
43:51
a huge cast turnover, so well, okay, well Hawk is pretty easy
43:54
to replace. You just find another huge muscle guy and just call him Block.
43:59
Yeah, so so you you had Laser becomes Taser, Blaze became Saber.
44:06
That's who. That's what it was. So when they when they got
44:08
after season two, they're like, okay, we'll just replace everybody. So
44:12
they just I don't know why. I don't know who owned the names.
44:15
I don't know why you can just give those people the same names. But
44:19
you do have to again, you have to watch because when they replace people,
44:23
they're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. I thought it
44:27
was, and this is why it made kind of blew my mind. I
44:30
thought it was a competition that if you won at the end, you became
44:35
an American Gladiator. Because I think the season one, the guy who took
44:39
the whole thing. The next year came back and he was it was I
44:45
can't remember his name, but he was on for I think two or three
44:49
seasons as well. He came back and became one of the Gladiators. That's
44:52
what I thought the show was. So every time they came back a new
44:55
season, like and we have all these new Gladiators, I was like,
44:58
oh, those are the people that want no, it has nothing to do
45:00
with any of them. They were just like, hey, we want to
45:02
pay these people eleven dollars. What can we do? Sounds like sounds like
45:10
radio companies? Yea, yeah, yeah. I remember them using that as
45:16
a selling point of you know, wait till you see who the next year.
45:21
You know, this year's Gladiators they're going to be. It was like
45:22
they're you know, tease of it. Yeah see I And that makes sense
45:28
now when I'm watching them, like, oh, that's when we're kids.
45:31
We don't know about contract disputes and money, and you just think these are
45:35
guys that like really enjoy hurting, Like the one do you remember that I
45:39
don't remember what it's called, but you have the basketball and you put it
45:43
in the thing like the little round. It looked like the wabble wobble that
45:46
that's basketball rush yeah but not okay, but imagine basketball, but like in
45:52
the gym and you have their needle. Oh it was it was, yeah,
45:57
it was. It was like American Gladiator basketball and and it was it
46:00
was like the it was like dodgeball, but it was like it had the
46:04
cylindrical like container things. Honestly, Honestly, if you think about it,
46:07
American Gladiators basketball was really reminiscent of basketball for at the time because you really
46:13
couldn't differentiate a whole lot between Bill lamb Beer's Pistons and the American Gladiators.
46:19
Go back and watch the series, go back and watch the Eastern Conference finals
46:22
of like nineteen ninety or whatever it is, between the Pistons and the Bulls,
46:25
and they just beat the crap out of Michael Jordan for for the whole
46:29
series. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Bad boys. Yeah. But
46:34
they were like like literally the motivation then became like the pep talk in the
46:39
in the locker room or nine locker room dressing room, was like, hey,
46:43
at least we get to hurt people. Well, they had one game
46:47
that was like charts with you know, throwing charts at people. Oh,
46:53
you're right, it was like it was it was it was like jackline trust
46:59
darts, right, yeah, it was it was yard darts. So yeah,
47:04
yeah, see. But here's the like, here's here's how my brain
47:08
works, right, Like I have friends that are professional wrestlers, so I
47:13
don't understand like that when like what that meetings like like all right, hey
47:15
man, so here's what Bill, So would you think about? Like two
47:19
minutes in I hitched in the head with an iron, I'm like, all
47:21
right, that sounds good. I'm gonna use this fork and stabby in the
47:23
eye. You're awesome. The same thing like when I saw the American Gladier's
47:28
documentary, like so what kind of what kind of events can we have?
47:30
And they nobody came to the table. That's the thing. Nobody came to
47:35
the table with anything safe. Nobody went hey, let's let's let's have them
47:39
spell Everybody's like, okay, wow, you're not gonna no. Of course,
47:44
the show was very self aware, like you're not going to have a
47:47
spelling be competition in the middle of those you know of joust and human wrecking
47:52
ball You're not going to have have them sit down and play chess. That's
47:55
boring. You want to see people get their ass kicked. And that was
48:00
Alabum might have won. That was sports though at that time. I mean
48:06
bodies were disposable. Yeah, yeah, were disposable. Concussions no one even
48:12
knew what that word was, Like concussions, Well, you knew. You
48:15
got your bell rung air quotes and then they gave you some smelling small salts
48:19
and sent you back in. Yeah. So they were like there was one
48:22
that I remember going as a kid, going that can't be saved. Do
48:27
you remember that King of the Hill thing contraption that they had where it was
48:30
like you had there, it was everybody. It was a free for all.
48:32
Oh, everybody who was trying to get to the top of this Like
48:36
it looked like Jim like those little red mats, but they were like inflated.
48:40
Yeah, there were stuffed and everybody there was. No it's not like
48:45
they had repelling rows. If you threw somebody off that, they're just flying
48:50
off that. Yeah. No, you're right. It's like at a certain
48:52
point they just they just kind of gave up on the creativity of the games.
48:55
And then at some point they're basically you know, just like all right
48:59
now, but time for who can take the most shots to them those before
49:10
passing out? You you advanced to the gauntlet. The only people making money
49:20
on that show is like TiSER Permanente. That's like Blue Cross, Blue Shield
49:24
made a fortune of that show. Definitely, But yeah, they would,
49:28
they should. They showed them. They were interviewing one of the executive producers
49:30
that like how they came up with the games. They're like, okay,
49:35
how about we hit them with you know, they run and they hide,
49:37
and then we just kind of hit them with tennis balls like oh okay,
49:40
and then that would kind of go okay, but what if what if it
49:45
was tennis balls? I like your idea, Sarah, But but what if
49:49
we put them in a like in a CEO two container and like launch it
49:53
at him? Yeah yeah, but what's the speed of that? We're not
49:55
sure? Yeah, so the idea is to this balls but five hundred feet
50:00
per second. Also there also their nails and glass inside the tennis balls.
50:10
Yeah, so basically what you just did there was what their chow prop was
50:15
like. So they were like, hey, so what can we do this?
50:17
Season, and it was like somebody was like, hey, how about
50:20
we launch like dodgeball. We'll just hit them with tennis balls, and they
50:23
went, wow, that's not exciting. But if we make it like this
50:28
new age because all the all the eighties and eighties and nineties action movies were
50:30
coming out, so like the bigger, the cooler looking the thing was.
50:35
And they made it round with all the tennis balls so you could see them
50:37
when they get launched out that that they're actually using those tennis balls in the
50:42
container, and like, how can we launch this at people to injure them?
50:47
Like, oh, okay, perfect, let's just put this and again
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it is something like five hundred six hundred feet per second is what this is
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launching at. And we just got it. Yeah. I don't even know
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when they started, if they were I remember at one point there there was
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they made a deal about the fact that they everyone was wearing protective eyewear.
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Yes, I don't even know when they started, if they were making them
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wear goggles. I think it was after Malbow. I think it's when Malibu
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got kicked in the eye. They're like, hey, we might want to
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have some safety safety first. It's all funning games until someone loses an eye.
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That's Malibu Sweet. For all things Treehouse, go to Treehouse OnAir,
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dot com, on social media, it's at Treehouse on Air. For me,
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it's at the Daniel Malle. For tree it's at Trade Trend Holme one,
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and for Raj it's at Comedian Rags. Don't forget our new band name,
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